by In this short article, I'll show you how you can quickly remove all unwanted hyperlinks from an Excel worksheet at once and prevent their occurrence in the future. The solution works in all Excel versions starting from Excel 2003 through modern Excel 2021 and desktop Excel included in Microsoft 365.
Every time you type an e-mail address or URL in a cell, Excel automatically converts it into a clickable hyperlink. From my experience, this behavior is annoying rather than helpful :-(
So after typing a new email to my table or editing a URL and pressing Enter, I usually press Ctrl+Z to remove the hyperlink that Excel automatically created…
First I'll show how you can delete all accidently created unnecessary hyperlinks, and then how you can configure your Excel to turn off the Auto-Hyperlinking feature.
Remove multiple hyperlinks in all Excel versions
In Excel 2000-2007, there is no built-in function to delete multiple hyperlinks at a time, only one by one. Here is a simple trick that lets you overcome this limitation, of course, the trick works in Excel 2019, 2016, and 2013 too.
- Select any empty cell outside your table.
- Type 1 to this cell.
- Copy this cell (Ctrl+C).
- Select your columns with Hyperlinks: click on any cell with data in the 1st column and press Ctrl+Space to select the whole column:
- If you want to select more than 1 column at a time: after selecting the 1s column, hold Ctrl, click on any cell in the 2nd column and press Space to select all cells in the 2nd column without losing selection in 1st column.
- Right-click on any selected cells and select "Paste Special" from the context menu:
- In the "Paste Special" dialog box, select the "Multiply" radio button in the "Operation" section:
- Click Ok. All hyperlinks are removed :-)
How to delete all hyperlinks in 2 clicks (Excel 2021 – 2010)
In Excel 2010, Microsoft finally added the ability to remove multiple hyperlinks at a time:
- Select the entire column with Hyperlinks: click on any cell with data and press Ctrl+Space.
- Right-click on any selected cell and select "Remove hyperlinks" from the context menu.
Note: If you select a single cell, then this menu item changes to "Remove hyperlink", a nice example of usability :-(
- All hyperlinks are removed from the column :-)
Disable automatic creation of hyperlinks in Excel
- In Excel 2007, click the Office button -> Excel Options.
In Excel 2010 - 2019, navigate to the File Tab -> Options. - In the "Excel Options" dialog box, switch to the "Proofing" tab in the left column and click the "AutoCorrect Options" button:
- In the "AutoCorrect Options" dialog box, switch to the "AutoFormat As You Type" tab and uncheck the "Internet and network paths with hyperlinks" checkbox.
- Click OK twice to close both dialogs and return to your Excel worksheet.
Now, type any URL or email to any cell - Excel retains the plain text format :-)
When you really need to create a hyperlink, simply press Ctrl+K to open the "Insert Hyperlink" dialog box.
81 comments
This solution didn't work for me. A lot of the data I was trying to change was part numbers such as 00004587. The part number above was changed to the number 4,587.
Excellent and very herlpful!
hi
for excel 2007 copy the list and past special and select values.
your problem will be solved
The information you provided was very clear. Thank you very much!
Thanks!
Thank you! I was working on exported data in excel.....more than 3500 rows and two columns of all hyperlinks. This truly saved me as I prepare a board report!
Thanks...its was very helpful
Try long path tool.
Thanks so much, very helpful.
Thanks for saving my sanity. One additional point. Merged cells will prevent this from working. Unmerge, or don't highlight those cells, and the hyperlinks go away.
Craig Chamberlin, To get rid of all hyperlinked pictures just click on any single cell on the spread sheet, hit F5 and select [special] at the bottom left of the pop-up box. Next select objects and hit [OK]. This will select all of the pictures on the spreadsheet. Then just hit delete. NOTE: This will delete all pictures on the sheet, not just the hyperlinked ones.
This is the only way that worked for me.--Thanks Ryan!
I ended up with a bunch of hyperlinks, that tended to multiply as I copied and moved stuff around. (probably because I had on the option "Cut, copy, and sort inserted objects with their parent cells".
After a while they locked up Excel, sorting, two different versions.
I'm hoping clearing them out helps my sorting not lock it up.
Thanks for the tip of deleting all hyperlinks, save me a lots of work.
Ok, I have seen this 'multiply by 1' copy and paste-special trick, and even using a macro to remove all the hyperlinks, but when a picture is copied and pasted to an Excel (2007 at least) spreadsheet, it sits above the actual worksheet, (the picture or jpeg is not in a cell, but hovers above it, so the multiply trick won't work) and when I select it, I get a picture control boundary and controls for changing the size; I can move it and change the scale and size by pulling on the corners or middle of the sides, or right-click and get the menu that also has 'Remove hyperlink,' but I am not going to do that for each and every one of hundreds of little pictures that are all over the worksheet! If I try to click on a cell that is too close to the picture or miss the cell, then it takes me to the website and opens up Internet Explorer. I HATE THIS!! There HAS to be some way to remove ALL, and I mean ALL, of the hyperlinks in Excel!!
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I've faced similar problem and found the solution.
Click at the menu bar 'Formula', click 'Name Manager', highlight and delete all except "Print_Titles" & "Print_Area". Save it and try to re-open.
This is very helpful! Thank you! Savior!
thanks mate. it worked
Awesome! Many thanks--you save me serious time and frustration!
Thanks mate.. It worked!!